You receive 5 points for contacts with US to VE stations and 2 points
for US-US or VE-VE contacts.
If you are in the US or VE you can not count US and VE as multipliers as
they use the states and 14 provinces for multipliers.
Ed K1EP wrote:
> I am confused a little by the rules. I read the 2008 CQ 160M Contest
> rules and under Scoring, there is the statement, "Contacts with other
> countries on same continent, 5 points." In the next paragraph,
> Multiplier, there is the statement, "Do not count the United States
> and Canada as separate countries." Okay, so does that mean that
> instead of 5 points for a W-VE QSO, it is 2 points? In all the
> contests in the past, I have received 5 points for a VE QSO. I
> checked previous contest rules and this is not something new, so
> apparently I didn't read the rules carefully before. Is it just
> that you don't consider US and Canada as countries in the multiplier
> totals, that is, you add up states, provinces, and countries other
> than US and Canada? But for determining QSO point scoring, they are
> considered different countries? Maybe I am too literal here, but
> maybe a couple of extras words in the rules would clarify things.
>
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